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Chicago examiner vc vi no 314 a m tuesday december 22 1908 14 pages price one cent d^rrtbjcuiijf 30 cents per month 7 council man and 2 pittsburg bankers held on gigantic bribery charge arrests at mayor guthrie's behest follow civic league investigation coup on eve of primary , prisoners accused of receiv ing large sums for grant ing city contracts pittsburg pa dec 21 seven i members of the finance com ' mittee of councils including j the president of the comnun council ( were arrested to-night charged wit'i â– conspiracy corrupt solicitation and bribery the accuÃŸer is tensard da wolfe secretary of the civic league of allegheny county whicb has been aiding mayor guthrie in gathering evidence the accused are willian brand president of the common coun cil jacob soffel jr hugh ferguson captain john f klein w h melaney joseph c wasson and t ollis atkin son all are members of the common council except atkinson who is a member of the select council informations were also made against president w w ramsey and a a vilÃŸack cashier of the german na tional bank to-night by de wolfe charging them with conspiracy mr vilsack was arrested and his brother furnished 15,000 bail president ram eey was arrested at 11:30 to-night and at midnight had not had time to se cure a bondsman it is alleged that the german national bank gave th members of the common council 17,500 the men primarily responsible for their arrest are all attorneys who are the backers of the civic league they are mayor george w guthrie patterson sterrett & acheson willis f mccook w b rogers city solici tor and a leo weil attorney for the civic league members of the big six wasson soffel klein and brand are members of the common council known as the big six they have been ob structing legislation so great a stir was cansed by the arrest that the boards of directors of a number of banks were called into extra session to conceal the banks which are to be charged with bribing the finance committee in order to be selected as depositaries this is one of the charges which will create the greatest stir because the banks will undoubtedly be dragged into the trials the charges against the seven men stripped of egal phraseology are as fol lows that they offered bribes to obtain and influence the votes of a number of mem bers of the select and common council to secure the passage of certain ordinances designating the depositaries for the fnnds of the city bridge ordinances bond ordin ances for freeing bridges ordinances for filter beds the heberton street railway ordinance resolution to pave fourth ve nue with wood blocks and other resolu tions charges cover two years â€¢ the informations say the charges re ferred to cover a period of two years the amounts of money the members of the council are said to have received are fabulous they are alleged to have held p all city legislation against mayor goth rie the latter was asked by citizens to go to the council chamber sa his prede cessors baa don and compel the members to act mayor guthrie refused giving his rea son that the members of the council had been elected to devise city legislation and it was his duty to pass or veto it if be considered it good or bad otherwise he would not evea make a suggestion all the time that he has been held up he has been quietly working with the civic league gathering data relative to the ac tions of the menbers of councils owing to the fact that the people hav ing charge of the civic league work are nearly all leading members of the bar it is the oplnioa that they would not have made a move inless they had ample evi dence to prove their charges in the infor mations gives bail of 15,000 all the seven members of councils were arrested to-night each gave bail of 15,000 on each count , all the men arrested are candidates for i re-election soffel who is a commou ! councilman is a candidate for select coun cil he said that in spite of the charges against him he will remain a candidate and make a fight for the place he said it was a poltical conspiracy one of the charges against some mem bers of the finance committee will be that of accepting bribes to hold up the pur chasing of the bridges which connect tlie north side formerly allegheny with plttsbnrg the heberton street railway franchise is said to have been purchased b.v its pro moters from members of councils who vote.l in favor of the ordinance , it is said discoveries have been mad that members of the council have received j considerations for the contract for paving unknown man found dead at midnight in office of attorney watchman discovers corpse by desk card and book give name of a l flingham a night watchman uncovered a mystery in the real estate board building 50 dearborn street at midnight last night when he discovered a dead man in the pri vate office of oliver m olson room 413 the man is supposed to be a l flaning ham a lawyer with offices at 171 wash ington street although he had not been positively identified at an early hour this morning c a langer the watchman had noticed a light burning all evening in the offices occupied by mr olson a lawyer nnd louis l harris manager of the harris mercantile agency he knocked several times and got no response then think ing that one of the tenants had gone away and left the light burning unintentionally he got a skeleton key and entered the office in a back room marked private with the door standing open he found the dead man who had evidently been sitting in front of an open desk it is supposed that he was stricken with heart failure and fell to the floor when he fell the chair in which he was sitting fell on top of him there is no indication whatever of sui cide or murder said the police the incomplete identification of the body was made from a business card a letter from samuei f flaningham of darling ton ind addressed to a l flaningham 171 washington street Chicago and a book in a suitcase beside the desk presented to a l flaningham by the author l h whitney of liberty ville telepathic call saves doctor's friend surgeon rushes back home because voice called him philadelphia pa dec 21.â€”answer ing what he characterizes as a telepathic call dr paul mecray head surgeon of the cooper hospital at camden came home three hours earlier than he had intended and arrived in time to save the life of william d delamater of camden his dearest friend mr delemater was seized with appendicitis friday dr miller his physician saw that an operation was neces sary but could not perform it without dr mecray dr mecray was in jersey city i was near the station abovt the middle of the afternoon he said when i was j suddenly seized with the feeling that i was j badly waated at home a voice seemed to be saying take a train and go back to camden a man's life depends on your do ing so don't hesitate just go " dies at sea on way to marry an american mrs whitelaw reid prevents burial of english girl in ocean new york dec 21 miss priscilla hewson of carlisle england who was on her way to marry thomas clark of eu reka utah died saturday on the steamer baltic which arrived to-day but for the personal pleading of mrs whitelaw reid wife of the american ambassador to the court of st james the body of miss hew son wonld have been buried at sea mrs reid who was a passenger on the baltic guaranteed the cost of the young woman's interment ashore and sent wireless mes sages requesting her pastor the rev dr grosvenor of the church of the incarna tion to have his sexton take charge of the body tod sloan and wife pass in mid-ocean london dec 21 t0 sloan has arrived here from new york to meet his wife julia sanderson the american actress the once-famous jockey came over on the steamer kaiserin auguste and ten hours before the steamer's arrival his wife had sailed on the steamer lucania tod and his wife had been estranged because she thought he had been too attentive to an other actress it was sloan's intention to sail back to new york with his wife talk over their differences on the voyage and make np he was the most unhappy man in london when he found that his wife had sailed thaw loses again in his fight for freedom philadelphia pa dec 21.-harry kendall thaw slayer of stanford white met with another defeat to-day in his flght for liberty the united states circuit court of appeals handed down an opinion dismissing the appeal from the decision of judge young of l'ittsburg who refused to order thaw brought to this state from the matteawan state hospital la new york thaw's attorneys desired to have him taken to pittsburg that he might testify in bankruptcy proceedings in that city 500,000 suit won through want ad stepmother ordered to restore Chicago estate to sons of eugene fisk old nurse star witness located in far west by means of newspaper of this city by a decision handed down by the su preme court of connecticut yesterday chi cago property to the value of 500,000 passes into the hands of louis and leonard flsk of new haven sons of the late eu gene fisk the strange angle in the story is that a want ad in Chicago papers finally won for the sons of the wealthy connecticut man the property which they were morally certain was theirs but the rjght to which they could not prove in a court of law the fisks at one time lived in Chicago when the first mrs fisk died in this city in 1881 she gave her husband a piece of property on twenty-sixth street and other property on jackson boulevard to hold in trust for her sons who were victorious yesterday there was no deed made mrs fisk turned over the land to her husband on her deathbed mary hoff a nurse was present anl heard the conversation that passed be tween the dying woman and her husband soon after she disappeared and was not heard from for years sold part of property in 188s fisk sold a portion of the prop erty for 40,000 and in 1807 he sold the remainder of it for 217,000 in the meantime the elder fisk had mar ried again his bride was maggie dwyer who had been a chambermaid in the fisk household two years ngo fisk died it was found that he had transferred all of his property to his second wife forgetting his children now men grown by his first wife the sons brought suit to compel their stepmother to restore the Chicago property to them she denied all knowledge of an agreement such as the sons insisted had existed mary hoff was the woman who could prove their right to the property advertise for old nurse advertisements were inserted in all the Chicago newspapers asking for information of the whereabouts of the missing mary hoff one of these adverstisemeuts caught the eye of john j bredshall a piano sales man living at 106 winchester avenue he knew mary hoff knew that she had mar ried and that she was living ou the pacific coast bredshall got in communication with the fisks the missing woman hur ried to new haven the lower courts some time ago handed down a decision in favor of the sons yes terday the supreme court confirmed this decision dr fitch of Chicago was also an import ant witness in the case mrs jerrems southard wants own name back myrtle evlyn noted pianist also asks court for change mrs mae jerrems southard who before her divorce early in the present year was mrs dan b southard and myrtle mar eella levy better known by her profes sional name of myrtle evlyn are two of six persons who applied to the circuit court yesterday to have their names changed by law mrs southard and her young son william george jerrems south ard four years old wish to drop forever the patronymic southard worn by a for mer university of Chicago baseball star whom she divorced and substitute therefor the name jerrems mrs levy and her husband edward levy both wlsa to be known in the future as evlyn which was mrs levy's maiden name eagle gamblers boat burned down in lake federal authorities will investigate to-day why orders were defied two miles out in the lake last night the eagle the old passenger boat whose last use was in carrying race track gamblers to the city of traverse was burned to the water's edge hundreds gathered on the lake shore to watch the unusual sight and thought it was a tragedy the federal bureau of engineers to-day will begin an investigation to learn why orders issued yesterday were violated the boat had been condemned and was to be sunk to day the burning last night was in disre gard of this plan the boat was set on fire by employes of the great lakes dredge & dock company off thirty-eighth street queen sends gen booth telegram of sympathy expresses hope that salvation army head will recover sight special cable to the examiner london dee 21 queen alexandra's interest in the salvation army was mani fested again to-day in this telegram to general william booth commander in chief of that body who was recently oper jated upon for a cataract i have felt o i much for you and hope the operation will ibe successful i trust you are getting on j toward complete recovery an(l that the sight you need so much will soon be en tirely restored general booths physi cians are fully satisfied with his progress loesch office is rifled by buhglars desks ransacked and pri mary frauds papers exam ined some time sunday politicians suspected investigator buck says men are on trail of those back of the affair that locks bad been plcffed deska forced anft papers rifled was the astonishing dis covery made yesterday morning in the office of special state's attorney frank j loesen on the third floor of the criminal court building the lack of signs fit violence about the outside door of the office led to the nellef that the invader either carried a key or had picked the lock mr loe.sch gave immediate orders that men be detailed from the force of special investigators to follow up every possible clew it was stated last nisht that evi jdence had been obtained tending to show that influential politicians some of whose names have already been mentioned in connection with the frauds were back of the burglary buck talks of suspicions we are not yet in a position to make specific accusations " said chief investi gator robert m buck last night but my men have been at work and i feel that it is safe to say that the men back of this outrage are merely piling up evidence against themselves rather than gaining any valuable information none of the papers or records of the office were stolen but it was evident that they had been examined at leisure according to mr buck and that notes had been taken from them as was shown by stray sheets of half-scribbled notepaper found on the floor it was admitted by mr loesch's assistants yesterday that the information that was probably gained by the intruders was of considerable importance the desks found broken open were those of assistant special state's attorney purdy and chief investigator robert xi buck in these desks were the records of exami nations of many of the witnesses who probably will be summoned before the next special grand jury together with their names and addresses and political affilia tions mr buck's desk also contained records of several confessions which have not yet been made public and which tended to im plicate several important politicians in the conspiracy that is thought to have been back of the primary frauds notes scattered on floor in mr purdy's desk were kept various legal documents prepared in anticipation of the coming trials of joseph phillips and ernest krulewitch who are accused of per jury in connection with the primaries the desk of mr loesch which stands ir his private office behind a locked door had not been tampered with and papers left there saturday morning were undis turbed the most important papers of the office were kept inji vault and no attempt had been made to disturb them the public service committee of the county board yesterday passed favorably on the requisition of special state's at torney loesch for the november salaries of his assistants and the matter will come before the entire board at its meeting next monday the account will then be re ferred to the finance committee for final action caesar dal pino a saloon keeper filed a chancery bill in the superior court seeking to the enjoin the county board from mak ing any appropriation for the support of the loesch prosecution he alleges that state's attorney john e w wayman s the lawfully constituted officer to take charge of such matters and that there is no need to pay an additonal salary to mr i.oeseh for the work the bill also seeks zo compel the loesch assistants to return to the county treasury all moheys alreadv drawn the case will be argued before either judge barnes or judge ball this morning when seen last night mr dal pino said that he filed the suit because a number of his neighbors believed that attorney loesch was drawing too much money while claiming to be a republican he admits that he is one of the precinct lieu tenants of alderman john powers david k tone is his attorney new englander's omit toast to president brooklyn society breaks custom first time in twenty-nine years new york dec 21 for the first time in twenty-nine years the time-honored custom of the new england association of brooklyn of drinking a standing toast to the president of the united states was broken to-night at its annual dinner in stead of the toast to the president a toast to the sovereign people of the united states was proposed and drunk with the heartiest enthusiasm no explanation was obtained for the omission of the toast to the president among the guests were t pierpont morgan the rev charles f aked simeon ford and rear admiral goodrich u s n Chicago may get sleet and a blizzard to-day the panhandle section is unsettled and with winds from that direction anything from sleet to a blizzard may be expected in Chicago to-day according to the weather man the meau temperature yesterday was 3*j an unsettled condition generully was reported from the country last night rain jind snow in eastern northern and carnegie business epigrams delivered at tariff hearing an income tax makes liars of men * * * if the government encourages combinations it must have a court to fix the prices to the consumer the day of the small man in the steel business has passed if he attempts it it argues that he does not deserve success * â™¦ * our policy has been a failure if after forty years coddling by a tar iff a steel concern cannot do with out the crutch of protection * * * it is not the duty of the govern ment to stand behind a man's mis takes * * â€¢ the relations of capital and labor are mutual it pays to get the best men and give them the highest wages Â». * * i had forty-three partners chosen because of merit and all were mil lionaires when we sold out in 1901 cheap foreign sales are good for all concerned they evidence the filling of the home market the sur plus going to maintain organiza tion at the works * â€¢ â€¢ the ore supply of this country will not last more than forty years in england not more than seven years pretty good securities are not good securities for me * * Â» a stock broker is one of the worst citizens of the country * * * protection should never be given except temporarily castro cubit is deposed by gomez venezuelan vice president names new ministry in chief's absence port of spain trinidad dec 21 vice president gomez to whom general castro turned over the presidency on going to europe has established a new govern ment in venezuela dr jose de jesus paul the foreign min ister who figured in the ousting of minis ter de hues and the break with holland has disappeared from the counsels of the nation dr baldo now traveling in cas tro's suite has beeu removed from the position of minister of education and general diego ferren has been superseded as minister of war by general regu'o olivares who took a prominent part in crushing the rebellion of six years ago the new cabinet is composed as follows minister of the interior â€” linares alcan tara i foreign affairs gonzales guinaud finances munoz tebar war â€” general regulo olivares fomento patronage rafael carabanc obras public works roberto vargas public instruction dr maldonado secret advices from caracas indicate that all venezuela has been in a ferment ever since castro sailed and that the crisis was reached a few days ago when it became necessary for acting president gomez to take decisive steps which he did by elimi nating from his cabinet those who were closely affiliated with the castro rule the revolutionary factions which gained strength with every hour of castro's ab sence played a prominent part in the dem onstrations against the absent president which took the form of rioting and incen diarism these were temporarily cheeked by a show of force and later the revolu tionary influence that threatened to sweep the country was overcome in a measure by promises policeman dies of haymarket riot shot louis johnson refused to slight duties through years of pain the widow of policeman louis johnson who died sunday at the norwegian tabitha hospital said yesterday that his death was caused bj a bullet wound in the leg he re ceived in the haymarket riot i can never forget that awful night said mrs johnson at her home 1086 north francisco street about 1 o'clock i was awakened by a ring at the doc bell i went to the door and found my wounded husband in the care of several other police men he was in bed several inonius he often complained afterward of the wound bothering him out he refused to stay away from the station johnson who was sixty-four years old joined the police force in 18s4 he was detailed at the desplaines street station until last august when he becanr incapa citated interment will be made wednes day at ml olivet claims he has serum to cure cancer italian professor gives records of cases he cured special cable to the examiner milan dee 21 professor sanfelice of the university of messina claims to have discovered after fifteen years of expert nionts that cancer is caused by tt parasite anil to have found a serum which kills : t tlie professor has produced before an and | ence of physicians records and specimens of various cases he has cured the cancer parasite belongs to the species of organic ferments and has beeu named saccharoiu o'malley in ireland wins his siddo bet chicagoan in ballyagran in less than one week ac cording to wager pat o'malley reached his old home at ballyagran ireland at 1:30 o'clock this mornnig and won his bet of 1,000 from jim o'leary with only an hour to spare but he won for once the stock yard gambler trusted to wind and weather and lost o'malley won the bet by racing the list â€¢ fifty miles of his journey in a sixty-horse power motor car he did not reach qneenstown until 11 p ni so the fifty miles was made in the dark at a speed of twenty miles an hour a telegram to his manager b j stevens was received here at midnight last night telling of his safe arrival one reached o'leary also but he was still unwilling to concede that he had lost reached ballyagran at 1:so a m merry christmas the message to stevens read it was dated at bruree four miles from ballyagran and the near est station the cable to o'leary was laconic ton lose it said and it was signed pat it was dated at queenstown just as o'mal ley stepped into the motor car for the last stage of his journey but he evident ly had faith that fifty miles in two hours and a half was no task for a big machine pat was to send me a message signed by himself and his father announcing his arrival i haven't got that and will not acknowledge defeat until i do said o'leary it was the forethought of his manager stevens that won o'mnlley his wager all yesterday and to-day stevens kept track of the big steamer lusltania upon which o'malley was a passenger and when he learned she was likely to be late into queenstown he arranged for the auto and notified o'malley o'malley made his trip from Chicago to the old folks " home in ireland in just a week â€” less seven hours for he reached there at 1:30 a m london time with an hour to spare and lost six hours by the difference unlike jules verne's hero he traveled eastward instead of west and time was against him the trip was the result of a wager made a week ago last night or rather this morning he with a party of friends tha included t/'leary was sitting at a table talking of the marvels of modern trans portation ; why i could be home in a week with the old folks sipping my grog just like we are here he said bet you a thousand you can't said o'leary using the sport's best argu ment and tlÂ»e vcager was made it was 2:30 tuesday morning when the bet was recorded so o'malley packed a bag and caught the first fast train to new york he caught the lusitanla wednesday morn ing and she sailed at 10 o'clock after he was aboard the whole thing was up to the big liner and wind and weather tawney won't guess at roosevelt's action says congress believes it's right on resolutions on message what presideut roosevelt will do with the resolutions adopted by the senate and house concerning the secret service 1 do not care to anticipate said representa tive james a tawney who passed through Chicago on his way to his home in winona minn yesterday we have done what was considered about right and there it rests for the time being speaker cannon will easily be re elected possibly without opposition ex cept from congressman champ clark of missouri leader of the democratic ml carnegie wit routs high priests of tariff ironmaster defends free trade for steel with epigrams and pointed jokes refuses actual figures payne grunts when longworth â– intimates he has been . 1 converted jg big crowd at hearing protection a failure if we cannot do without it now says scotchman washington dee 21 â€” an drew carnegie to-day de fended his position for free steel before the ways and means com mittee at a tariff hearing that ex tended throughout the day and in witty epigrams and pointed jokea turned aside a fierce onslaught led by payne dalzell and fordney high priests of protection , the examination of mr carnegie covered the widest range and a mul tiplicity of subjects the great iron master could not be swerved from his position he could not be led into 4 1 figures as to the actual cost of the manufacture of steel at home or i abroad but his generalizations were acute and pointed and his readiness with answer was remarkable 1 he smiled at the fatigue of his inquis itors and brightly announced himself ready for a week of the trial 1 some of his epigrams here are some of his epigrams a â– an income tax makes liars of a nation â– 1 the day for the small man in the steel business has passed if he attempts tt it ' argues he does not deserve success if the government encourages combina tions it must have a court to fix prices to the consumer our policy las been a failure if after forty years coddling by a tariff a steel concern cannot do withont the cratch of protection it is not the duty of the government t stand behind a man's mistakes the relations of capital and labor are mutual it pays to get the best men and give them the highest wages i had forty-three partners chosen be cause of merit and all were millionaires when we sold out in 1901 the opportunities for capable men were never greater than now cheap foreign sales are good for all con j cerned they evidence the filling of the i home market the surplns going to aat tain organization of the works figures befoggle unless yon know how ' to work them the ore supply of this country will not last more than forty years in england not more than seven years " pretty good securities tb not food securities for me a stock broker is one of the worst citizens of the country protection should never be given except temporarily crowd at hearing the examination of mr carnegie at tracted much attention and crowded the committee 100ms with members of con gress now in washington in the audience there were a number of women who en joyed the merry qulbs and jibes of the sctochman mr carnegie had much fun with mem bers of the committee and repeatedly forced chairman payne into the limelight by insisting that he notice the testimony mr payne early gave mr carnegie up as a bad proposition from which to extract testimony favorable to a continuation of the tariff and when mr longworth of the committee indicated that he had been converted by mr carnegie mr payne grunted audibly mr dalzell early took a hand in probing mr carnegie but was silenced with the statement oh john we knew you long ago as a skilled lawyer but not as a skilled steel man mr payne read from mr carnegie's i magazine articles and the last report of the steel corporation calling attention to the fact that steel rails were cheaper than other steel products and argued that it was not fair to average profits on steel products taken together to which mr car negie assented mr payne then asked if the profits in steel rails were not greater in 1907 than ever before mr carnegie the production was great er my impression is the prices were not advanced and the profits no greater schwab smartest man i know mr payne judge gary gave figures rtri/\t\-t'i 9 i l n t it tx'ottlfi not 7i 11 rfc fha p4p^,t weather forecast Chicago and vicinity â€” in creasing cloudiness tuesday fresh southwest winds wednesday fair promote yourself if you don't like to stick in the same old rut promote yourself to a better job a situation wanted ad in the examiner will help find an opening for you you will also be given the services of the examiner employment exchange 70 washington street 115 fifth avenue 776 milwaukee avenue f ib buy a business at a bargain 1 jra and be your own boss many fstf pasp bargains can be found in the ex c \ f aminer's business choice col \ 1 \\ umn look it over jjm jjjfl phone randolph 2500 ti

Chicago examiner vc vi no 314 a m tuesday december 22 1908 14 pages price one cent d^rrtbjcuiijf 30 cents per month 7 council man and 2 pittsburg bankers held on gigantic bribery charge arrests at mayor guthrie's behest follow civic league investigation coup on eve of primary , prisoners accused of receiv ing large sums for grant ing city contracts pittsburg pa dec 21 seven i members of the finance com ' mittee of councils including j the president of the comnun council ( were arrested to-night charged wit'i â– conspiracy corrupt solicitation and bribery the accuÃŸer is tensard da wolfe secretary of the civic league of allegheny county whicb has been aiding mayor guthrie in gathering evidence the accused are willian brand president of the common coun cil jacob soffel jr hugh ferguson captain john f klein w h melaney joseph c wasson and t ollis atkin son all are members of the common council except atkinson who is a member of the select council informations were also made against president w w ramsey and a a vilÃŸack cashier of the german na tional bank to-night by de wolfe charging them with conspiracy mr vilsack was arrested and his brother furnished 15,000 bail president ram eey was arrested at 11:30 to-night and at midnight had not had time to se cure a bondsman it is alleged that the german national bank gave th members of the common council 17,500 the men primarily responsible for their arrest are all attorneys who are the backers of the civic league they are mayor george w guthrie patterson sterrett & acheson willis f mccook w b rogers city solici tor and a leo weil attorney for the civic league members of the big six wasson soffel klein and brand are members of the common council known as the big six they have been ob structing legislation so great a stir was cansed by the arrest that the boards of directors of a number of banks were called into extra session to conceal the banks which are to be charged with bribing the finance committee in order to be selected as depositaries this is one of the charges which will create the greatest stir because the banks will undoubtedly be dragged into the trials the charges against the seven men stripped of egal phraseology are as fol lows that they offered bribes to obtain and influence the votes of a number of mem bers of the select and common council to secure the passage of certain ordinances designating the depositaries for the fnnds of the city bridge ordinances bond ordin ances for freeing bridges ordinances for filter beds the heberton street railway ordinance resolution to pave fourth ve nue with wood blocks and other resolu tions charges cover two years â€¢ the informations say the charges re ferred to cover a period of two years the amounts of money the members of the council are said to have received are fabulous they are alleged to have held p all city legislation against mayor goth rie the latter was asked by citizens to go to the council chamber sa his prede cessors baa don and compel the members to act mayor guthrie refused giving his rea son that the members of the council had been elected to devise city legislation and it was his duty to pass or veto it if be considered it good or bad otherwise he would not evea make a suggestion all the time that he has been held up he has been quietly working with the civic league gathering data relative to the ac tions of the menbers of councils owing to the fact that the people hav ing charge of the civic league work are nearly all leading members of the bar it is the oplnioa that they would not have made a move inless they had ample evi dence to prove their charges in the infor mations gives bail of 15,000 all the seven members of councils were arrested to-night each gave bail of 15,000 on each count , all the men arrested are candidates for i re-election soffel who is a commou ! councilman is a candidate for select coun cil he said that in spite of the charges against him he will remain a candidate and make a fight for the place he said it was a poltical conspiracy one of the charges against some mem bers of the finance committee will be that of accepting bribes to hold up the pur chasing of the bridges which connect tlie north side formerly allegheny with plttsbnrg the heberton street railway franchise is said to have been purchased b.v its pro moters from members of councils who vote.l in favor of the ordinance , it is said discoveries have been mad that members of the council have received j considerations for the contract for paving unknown man found dead at midnight in office of attorney watchman discovers corpse by desk card and book give name of a l flingham a night watchman uncovered a mystery in the real estate board building 50 dearborn street at midnight last night when he discovered a dead man in the pri vate office of oliver m olson room 413 the man is supposed to be a l flaning ham a lawyer with offices at 171 wash ington street although he had not been positively identified at an early hour this morning c a langer the watchman had noticed a light burning all evening in the offices occupied by mr olson a lawyer nnd louis l harris manager of the harris mercantile agency he knocked several times and got no response then think ing that one of the tenants had gone away and left the light burning unintentionally he got a skeleton key and entered the office in a back room marked private with the door standing open he found the dead man who had evidently been sitting in front of an open desk it is supposed that he was stricken with heart failure and fell to the floor when he fell the chair in which he was sitting fell on top of him there is no indication whatever of sui cide or murder said the police the incomplete identification of the body was made from a business card a letter from samuei f flaningham of darling ton ind addressed to a l flaningham 171 washington street Chicago and a book in a suitcase beside the desk presented to a l flaningham by the author l h whitney of liberty ville telepathic call saves doctor's friend surgeon rushes back home because voice called him philadelphia pa dec 21.â€”answer ing what he characterizes as a telepathic call dr paul mecray head surgeon of the cooper hospital at camden came home three hours earlier than he had intended and arrived in time to save the life of william d delamater of camden his dearest friend mr delemater was seized with appendicitis friday dr miller his physician saw that an operation was neces sary but could not perform it without dr mecray dr mecray was in jersey city i was near the station abovt the middle of the afternoon he said when i was j suddenly seized with the feeling that i was j badly waated at home a voice seemed to be saying take a train and go back to camden a man's life depends on your do ing so don't hesitate just go " dies at sea on way to marry an american mrs whitelaw reid prevents burial of english girl in ocean new york dec 21 miss priscilla hewson of carlisle england who was on her way to marry thomas clark of eu reka utah died saturday on the steamer baltic which arrived to-day but for the personal pleading of mrs whitelaw reid wife of the american ambassador to the court of st james the body of miss hew son wonld have been buried at sea mrs reid who was a passenger on the baltic guaranteed the cost of the young woman's interment ashore and sent wireless mes sages requesting her pastor the rev dr grosvenor of the church of the incarna tion to have his sexton take charge of the body tod sloan and wife pass in mid-ocean london dec 21 t0 sloan has arrived here from new york to meet his wife julia sanderson the american actress the once-famous jockey came over on the steamer kaiserin auguste and ten hours before the steamer's arrival his wife had sailed on the steamer lucania tod and his wife had been estranged because she thought he had been too attentive to an other actress it was sloan's intention to sail back to new york with his wife talk over their differences on the voyage and make np he was the most unhappy man in london when he found that his wife had sailed thaw loses again in his fight for freedom philadelphia pa dec 21.-harry kendall thaw slayer of stanford white met with another defeat to-day in his flght for liberty the united states circuit court of appeals handed down an opinion dismissing the appeal from the decision of judge young of l'ittsburg who refused to order thaw brought to this state from the matteawan state hospital la new york thaw's attorneys desired to have him taken to pittsburg that he might testify in bankruptcy proceedings in that city 500,000 suit won through want ad stepmother ordered to restore Chicago estate to sons of eugene fisk old nurse star witness located in far west by means of newspaper of this city by a decision handed down by the su preme court of connecticut yesterday chi cago property to the value of 500,000 passes into the hands of louis and leonard flsk of new haven sons of the late eu gene fisk the strange angle in the story is that a want ad in Chicago papers finally won for the sons of the wealthy connecticut man the property which they were morally certain was theirs but the rjght to which they could not prove in a court of law the fisks at one time lived in Chicago when the first mrs fisk died in this city in 1881 she gave her husband a piece of property on twenty-sixth street and other property on jackson boulevard to hold in trust for her sons who were victorious yesterday there was no deed made mrs fisk turned over the land to her husband on her deathbed mary hoff a nurse was present anl heard the conversation that passed be tween the dying woman and her husband soon after she disappeared and was not heard from for years sold part of property in 188s fisk sold a portion of the prop erty for 40,000 and in 1807 he sold the remainder of it for 217,000 in the meantime the elder fisk had mar ried again his bride was maggie dwyer who had been a chambermaid in the fisk household two years ngo fisk died it was found that he had transferred all of his property to his second wife forgetting his children now men grown by his first wife the sons brought suit to compel their stepmother to restore the Chicago property to them she denied all knowledge of an agreement such as the sons insisted had existed mary hoff was the woman who could prove their right to the property advertise for old nurse advertisements were inserted in all the Chicago newspapers asking for information of the whereabouts of the missing mary hoff one of these adverstisemeuts caught the eye of john j bredshall a piano sales man living at 106 winchester avenue he knew mary hoff knew that she had mar ried and that she was living ou the pacific coast bredshall got in communication with the fisks the missing woman hur ried to new haven the lower courts some time ago handed down a decision in favor of the sons yes terday the supreme court confirmed this decision dr fitch of Chicago was also an import ant witness in the case mrs jerrems southard wants own name back myrtle evlyn noted pianist also asks court for change mrs mae jerrems southard who before her divorce early in the present year was mrs dan b southard and myrtle mar eella levy better known by her profes sional name of myrtle evlyn are two of six persons who applied to the circuit court yesterday to have their names changed by law mrs southard and her young son william george jerrems south ard four years old wish to drop forever the patronymic southard worn by a for mer university of Chicago baseball star whom she divorced and substitute therefor the name jerrems mrs levy and her husband edward levy both wlsa to be known in the future as evlyn which was mrs levy's maiden name eagle gamblers boat burned down in lake federal authorities will investigate to-day why orders were defied two miles out in the lake last night the eagle the old passenger boat whose last use was in carrying race track gamblers to the city of traverse was burned to the water's edge hundreds gathered on the lake shore to watch the unusual sight and thought it was a tragedy the federal bureau of engineers to-day will begin an investigation to learn why orders issued yesterday were violated the boat had been condemned and was to be sunk to day the burning last night was in disre gard of this plan the boat was set on fire by employes of the great lakes dredge & dock company off thirty-eighth street queen sends gen booth telegram of sympathy expresses hope that salvation army head will recover sight special cable to the examiner london dee 21 queen alexandra's interest in the salvation army was mani fested again to-day in this telegram to general william booth commander in chief of that body who was recently oper jated upon for a cataract i have felt o i much for you and hope the operation will ibe successful i trust you are getting on j toward complete recovery an(l that the sight you need so much will soon be en tirely restored general booths physi cians are fully satisfied with his progress loesch office is rifled by buhglars desks ransacked and pri mary frauds papers exam ined some time sunday politicians suspected investigator buck says men are on trail of those back of the affair that locks bad been plcffed deska forced anft papers rifled was the astonishing dis covery made yesterday morning in the office of special state's attorney frank j loesen on the third floor of the criminal court building the lack of signs fit violence about the outside door of the office led to the nellef that the invader either carried a key or had picked the lock mr loe.sch gave immediate orders that men be detailed from the force of special investigators to follow up every possible clew it was stated last nisht that evi jdence had been obtained tending to show that influential politicians some of whose names have already been mentioned in connection with the frauds were back of the burglary buck talks of suspicions we are not yet in a position to make specific accusations " said chief investi gator robert m buck last night but my men have been at work and i feel that it is safe to say that the men back of this outrage are merely piling up evidence against themselves rather than gaining any valuable information none of the papers or records of the office were stolen but it was evident that they had been examined at leisure according to mr buck and that notes had been taken from them as was shown by stray sheets of half-scribbled notepaper found on the floor it was admitted by mr loesch's assistants yesterday that the information that was probably gained by the intruders was of considerable importance the desks found broken open were those of assistant special state's attorney purdy and chief investigator robert xi buck in these desks were the records of exami nations of many of the witnesses who probably will be summoned before the next special grand jury together with their names and addresses and political affilia tions mr buck's desk also contained records of several confessions which have not yet been made public and which tended to im plicate several important politicians in the conspiracy that is thought to have been back of the primary frauds notes scattered on floor in mr purdy's desk were kept various legal documents prepared in anticipation of the coming trials of joseph phillips and ernest krulewitch who are accused of per jury in connection with the primaries the desk of mr loesch which stands ir his private office behind a locked door had not been tampered with and papers left there saturday morning were undis turbed the most important papers of the office were kept inji vault and no attempt had been made to disturb them the public service committee of the county board yesterday passed favorably on the requisition of special state's at torney loesch for the november salaries of his assistants and the matter will come before the entire board at its meeting next monday the account will then be re ferred to the finance committee for final action caesar dal pino a saloon keeper filed a chancery bill in the superior court seeking to the enjoin the county board from mak ing any appropriation for the support of the loesch prosecution he alleges that state's attorney john e w wayman s the lawfully constituted officer to take charge of such matters and that there is no need to pay an additonal salary to mr i.oeseh for the work the bill also seeks zo compel the loesch assistants to return to the county treasury all moheys alreadv drawn the case will be argued before either judge barnes or judge ball this morning when seen last night mr dal pino said that he filed the suit because a number of his neighbors believed that attorney loesch was drawing too much money while claiming to be a republican he admits that he is one of the precinct lieu tenants of alderman john powers david k tone is his attorney new englander's omit toast to president brooklyn society breaks custom first time in twenty-nine years new york dec 21 for the first time in twenty-nine years the time-honored custom of the new england association of brooklyn of drinking a standing toast to the president of the united states was broken to-night at its annual dinner in stead of the toast to the president a toast to the sovereign people of the united states was proposed and drunk with the heartiest enthusiasm no explanation was obtained for the omission of the toast to the president among the guests were t pierpont morgan the rev charles f aked simeon ford and rear admiral goodrich u s n Chicago may get sleet and a blizzard to-day the panhandle section is unsettled and with winds from that direction anything from sleet to a blizzard may be expected in Chicago to-day according to the weather man the meau temperature yesterday was 3*j an unsettled condition generully was reported from the country last night rain jind snow in eastern northern and carnegie business epigrams delivered at tariff hearing an income tax makes liars of men * * * if the government encourages combinations it must have a court to fix the prices to the consumer the day of the small man in the steel business has passed if he attempts it it argues that he does not deserve success * â™¦ * our policy has been a failure if after forty years coddling by a tar iff a steel concern cannot do with out the crutch of protection * * * it is not the duty of the govern ment to stand behind a man's mis takes * * â€¢ the relations of capital and labor are mutual it pays to get the best men and give them the highest wages Â». * * i had forty-three partners chosen because of merit and all were mil lionaires when we sold out in 1901 cheap foreign sales are good for all concerned they evidence the filling of the home market the sur plus going to maintain organiza tion at the works * â€¢ â€¢ the ore supply of this country will not last more than forty years in england not more than seven years pretty good securities are not good securities for me * * Â» a stock broker is one of the worst citizens of the country * * * protection should never be given except temporarily castro cubit is deposed by gomez venezuelan vice president names new ministry in chief's absence port of spain trinidad dec 21 vice president gomez to whom general castro turned over the presidency on going to europe has established a new govern ment in venezuela dr jose de jesus paul the foreign min ister who figured in the ousting of minis ter de hues and the break with holland has disappeared from the counsels of the nation dr baldo now traveling in cas tro's suite has beeu removed from the position of minister of education and general diego ferren has been superseded as minister of war by general regu'o olivares who took a prominent part in crushing the rebellion of six years ago the new cabinet is composed as follows minister of the interior â€” linares alcan tara i foreign affairs gonzales guinaud finances munoz tebar war â€” general regulo olivares fomento patronage rafael carabanc obras public works roberto vargas public instruction dr maldonado secret advices from caracas indicate that all venezuela has been in a ferment ever since castro sailed and that the crisis was reached a few days ago when it became necessary for acting president gomez to take decisive steps which he did by elimi nating from his cabinet those who were closely affiliated with the castro rule the revolutionary factions which gained strength with every hour of castro's ab sence played a prominent part in the dem onstrations against the absent president which took the form of rioting and incen diarism these were temporarily cheeked by a show of force and later the revolu tionary influence that threatened to sweep the country was overcome in a measure by promises policeman dies of haymarket riot shot louis johnson refused to slight duties through years of pain the widow of policeman louis johnson who died sunday at the norwegian tabitha hospital said yesterday that his death was caused bj a bullet wound in the leg he re ceived in the haymarket riot i can never forget that awful night said mrs johnson at her home 1086 north francisco street about 1 o'clock i was awakened by a ring at the doc bell i went to the door and found my wounded husband in the care of several other police men he was in bed several inonius he often complained afterward of the wound bothering him out he refused to stay away from the station johnson who was sixty-four years old joined the police force in 18s4 he was detailed at the desplaines street station until last august when he becanr incapa citated interment will be made wednes day at ml olivet claims he has serum to cure cancer italian professor gives records of cases he cured special cable to the examiner milan dee 21 professor sanfelice of the university of messina claims to have discovered after fifteen years of expert nionts that cancer is caused by tt parasite anil to have found a serum which kills : t tlie professor has produced before an and | ence of physicians records and specimens of various cases he has cured the cancer parasite belongs to the species of organic ferments and has beeu named saccharoiu o'malley in ireland wins his siddo bet chicagoan in ballyagran in less than one week ac cording to wager pat o'malley reached his old home at ballyagran ireland at 1:30 o'clock this mornnig and won his bet of 1,000 from jim o'leary with only an hour to spare but he won for once the stock yard gambler trusted to wind and weather and lost o'malley won the bet by racing the list â€¢ fifty miles of his journey in a sixty-horse power motor car he did not reach qneenstown until 11 p ni so the fifty miles was made in the dark at a speed of twenty miles an hour a telegram to his manager b j stevens was received here at midnight last night telling of his safe arrival one reached o'leary also but he was still unwilling to concede that he had lost reached ballyagran at 1:so a m merry christmas the message to stevens read it was dated at bruree four miles from ballyagran and the near est station the cable to o'leary was laconic ton lose it said and it was signed pat it was dated at queenstown just as o'mal ley stepped into the motor car for the last stage of his journey but he evident ly had faith that fifty miles in two hours and a half was no task for a big machine pat was to send me a message signed by himself and his father announcing his arrival i haven't got that and will not acknowledge defeat until i do said o'leary it was the forethought of his manager stevens that won o'mnlley his wager all yesterday and to-day stevens kept track of the big steamer lusltania upon which o'malley was a passenger and when he learned she was likely to be late into queenstown he arranged for the auto and notified o'malley o'malley made his trip from Chicago to the old folks " home in ireland in just a week â€” less seven hours for he reached there at 1:30 a m london time with an hour to spare and lost six hours by the difference unlike jules verne's hero he traveled eastward instead of west and time was against him the trip was the result of a wager made a week ago last night or rather this morning he with a party of friends tha included t/'leary was sitting at a table talking of the marvels of modern trans portation ; why i could be home in a week with the old folks sipping my grog just like we are here he said bet you a thousand you can't said o'leary using the sport's best argu ment and tlÂ»e vcager was made it was 2:30 tuesday morning when the bet was recorded so o'malley packed a bag and caught the first fast train to new york he caught the lusitanla wednesday morn ing and she sailed at 10 o'clock after he was aboard the whole thing was up to the big liner and wind and weather tawney won't guess at roosevelt's action says congress believes it's right on resolutions on message what presideut roosevelt will do with the resolutions adopted by the senate and house concerning the secret service 1 do not care to anticipate said representa tive james a tawney who passed through Chicago on his way to his home in winona minn yesterday we have done what was considered about right and there it rests for the time being speaker cannon will easily be re elected possibly without opposition ex cept from congressman champ clark of missouri leader of the democratic ml carnegie wit routs high priests of tariff ironmaster defends free trade for steel with epigrams and pointed jokes refuses actual figures payne grunts when longworth â– intimates he has been . 1 converted jg big crowd at hearing protection a failure if we cannot do without it now says scotchman washington dee 21 â€” an drew carnegie to-day de fended his position for free steel before the ways and means com mittee at a tariff hearing that ex tended throughout the day and in witty epigrams and pointed jokea turned aside a fierce onslaught led by payne dalzell and fordney high priests of protection , the examination of mr carnegie covered the widest range and a mul tiplicity of subjects the great iron master could not be swerved from his position he could not be led into 4 1 figures as to the actual cost of the manufacture of steel at home or i abroad but his generalizations were acute and pointed and his readiness with answer was remarkable 1 he smiled at the fatigue of his inquis itors and brightly announced himself ready for a week of the trial 1 some of his epigrams here are some of his epigrams a â– an income tax makes liars of a nation â– 1 the day for the small man in the steel business has passed if he attempts tt it ' argues he does not deserve success if the government encourages combina tions it must have a court to fix prices to the consumer our policy las been a failure if after forty years coddling by a tariff a steel concern cannot do withont the cratch of protection it is not the duty of the government t stand behind a man's mistakes the relations of capital and labor are mutual it pays to get the best men and give them the highest wages i had forty-three partners chosen be cause of merit and all were millionaires when we sold out in 1901 the opportunities for capable men were never greater than now cheap foreign sales are good for all con j cerned they evidence the filling of the i home market the surplns going to aat tain organization of the works figures befoggle unless yon know how ' to work them the ore supply of this country will not last more than forty years in england not more than seven years " pretty good securities tb not food securities for me a stock broker is one of the worst citizens of the country protection should never be given except temporarily crowd at hearing the examination of mr carnegie at tracted much attention and crowded the committee 100ms with members of con gress now in washington in the audience there were a number of women who en joyed the merry qulbs and jibes of the sctochman mr carnegie had much fun with mem bers of the committee and repeatedly forced chairman payne into the limelight by insisting that he notice the testimony mr payne early gave mr carnegie up as a bad proposition from which to extract testimony favorable to a continuation of the tariff and when mr longworth of the committee indicated that he had been converted by mr carnegie mr payne grunted audibly mr dalzell early took a hand in probing mr carnegie but was silenced with the statement oh john we knew you long ago as a skilled lawyer but not as a skilled steel man mr payne read from mr carnegie's i magazine articles and the last report of the steel corporation calling attention to the fact that steel rails were cheaper than other steel products and argued that it was not fair to average profits on steel products taken together to which mr car negie assented mr payne then asked if the profits in steel rails were not greater in 1907 than ever before mr carnegie the production was great er my impression is the prices were not advanced and the profits no greater schwab smartest man i know mr payne judge gary gave figures rtri/\t\-t'i 9 i l n t it tx'ottlfi not 7i 11 rfc fha p4p^,t weather forecast Chicago and vicinity â€” in creasing cloudiness tuesday fresh southwest winds wednesday fair promote yourself if you don't like to stick in the same old rut promote yourself to a better job a situation wanted ad in the examiner will help find an opening for you you will also be given the services of the examiner employment exchange 70 washington street 115 fifth avenue 776 milwaukee avenue f ib buy a business at a bargain 1 jra and be your own boss many fstf pasp bargains can be found in the ex c \ f aminer's business choice col \ 1 \\ umn look it over jjm jjjfl phone randolph 2500 ti